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PARIS (UP1) Dozens o f young pro Israeli youths dem onstrated Thursday night outside a Paris radio station where Foreign Minister Michel Dcbrc was broadcasting a defense o f President Charles de Gaulle’s arms embargo on Israel. Debre said Dc Gaulle’s Middle East policy „conform s to the interest o f France” and pointedly challenged growing domestic opposition to the embargo by asking “ if the French do not think first o if their country , what will it do for them ?” The dem onstrators gathered on the sidewalk outside the privately owned radio station, Europe Nomber One, just o ff the Champs Elysces, waving banners expressing their solidarity with Israel. But Debre seemed more concerned with the criticism o f De Gaulle by the French press, some o f the sharpest the 79 year old president has had to put up with in his 10 years in power. The coun try ’s most influential newspaper, Le Monde, said Thursday that the 79 year old French president imposed the embargo on Israel because o f “ personal dislikes” and expressed the hope that France “ will not have to pay too dearly for the abuses of one man rule.” Debre said in the radio interview tha t French Middle East policy recognized Israel’s right to exist, to security and to normal guarantees o f international rights, but also provided for development o f good relations with the Arab world. on the inside...